Scientific American | Bird combines Calls in specific Order

Bird combines Calls in specific Order

The birds of the bird are also sequential.

Humans has always considered themselves special compared and other animals. One reason is the complexity of our language-bounded by unique rules, such as syntax, where we string words together in a Specific order to create meaningful sentences.

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People always think that humans are unique compared to other animals. One of the reasons is because of the complexity of our language--because of the unique rules of human language, such as syntax, that we make a meaningful statement of words in a particular word order.

but It turns out a bird could also vocalize with syntax rules-the Japanese great tit, a bird that ' s a close Relative of North America ' s very own chickadee. Toshitaka Suzuki, of Japan ' s graduate University for advanced studies, have been listening to the calls of the Japanese GRE At tit for the past decade. Suzuki has recorded at least ten alarm calls used by the bird. These include [sound clip], known as the ABC call, which alerts other great tits to the presence of a predator, and [sound Clip] The D call, which signals the birds to approach the caller.

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But the results suggest that birds ' cries also have their own rules--such as Japanese big-dick, close relatives of North American's. Over the past decade, Toshitaka Suzuki of the Japanese Institute for Advanced Studies has been studying the sounds of Japanese big-dick. and recorded 10 kinds of warning sounds of big-size-saggy-sex. This includes the ABC call, which warns other people that there are predators here, and D calls, signaling that other big-dick can approach the sounder.

Now Suzuki and his colleagues has found, the great tit uses those calls together to deliver both messages to other BI Rds. And they found that, the order of that is essential-only [sound clip] abc-d made sense to the birds. When the scientists intentionally reversed the order to create a d-abc call [sound clip], the birds does not respond. The study is in the journal Nature Communications.

Now Suzuki and colleagues have found that big-Dick also uses these calls to send messages to other birds. At the same time, they also found that the order of the calls was very important-only abc-d's calls could be understood by other birds. When the scientists deliberately changed the order of the calls to D-abc, the birds did not respond to the call. The findings are published in the journal Nature Exchange.

" I think the really interesting thing is what the order matters, and figuring that out I think would be was diff Icult but also potentially really, really interesting, because it ' ll give a lot of insight ... " David Wheatcroft of Sweden ' s Uppsala University, one of the study scientists. "You wouldn ' t expect the sort of naively that it would matter. Obviously it matters in human language, the order in which we say things, but it's still somehow shocking when you find it In tits. So I think understanding why it's the case would be is really interesting in the future. "

"I think the real interesting point is why the order of these calls is so important that finding the answer to this question can be very difficult, but it will be interesting because it will give us a lot of insight ..." David Tecroft, a scientist at Uppsala University in Sweden. "You must not be naïve to think that this is not important, but that the language order is of great significance to our human language, but it is shocking that this phenomenon also exists in the cry of big-eyed people." So, I think finding the reason will bring a lot of fun to the future. ”

The work could help explain the evolution of the building blocks and structure of our own languages.

This work may help us to explain the evolutionary process of human language building blocks and structures.

Scientific American | Bird combines Calls in specific Order